Secret Directed-Energy Tech Protecting the President? (Updated)
WiredThe Secret Service is tasked with protecting the President of the United States from assailants; and given that President-elect Obama has already been the target of assassination plots they may have their work cut out after January. For instance, one of his Freedom of Information Act requests unearthed a 1998 U.S. Army program looking at a microwave device to beam sound directly into the target's skull which the rest of us had missed. Friedman's current court case involves attempts to extract information about any directed-energy weapons such as lasers and microwaves used by the Secret Service. A "Motion for an Enlargement of Time" by the Secret Service's attorney indicates that they have something, and it's pretty secret: "Plaintiff's FOIA request is for document concerning directed energy technology that is very sensitive. pd A portable version of the truck-mounted Active Denial System — the Pentagon's "pain ray" — might be used to similar effect.
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